Licia Florio

ORG GÉANT Title Senior Trust & Identity Manager BIO
Licia joined TERENA (now GÉANT) in 2001, where she started to work
on mobility and authentication and authorisation aspects. From 2009 to
2014 she led the Joint Research Activity on 'Identity and Trust' in the
GEANT project.
In 2015, she became the coordinator of the EC-funded project AARC
(Authentication and Authorization for Research Collaboration).
AARC aims to address the integration of different AAIs operated by the
various research collaborations and e-Infrastructures; the non-ubiquity
of federated credentials; and technical and policy challenges that are
ultimately hindering global research collaborations.
Licia also co-chairs REFEDS (Research and Education Federations), the
voice that articulates the mutual needs of research and education
identity federations worldwide.